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@petersuber@fediscience.org · 6 months ago

Update. "Marks Says He Was Forced Out of #FDA for Trying to Protect #Vaccine Safety #Data"
https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/fdageneral/114998

"Shortly before he was forced to resign, the nation's top vaccine regulator says he refused to grant #HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s team unrestricted access to a tightly held vaccine safety database, fearing that the information might be manipulated or even deleted."

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Marks Says He Was Forced Out of FDA for Trying to Protect Vaccine Safety Data

Top vaccine regulator denied RFK Jr. full access to and editing of safety database

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org replied · 6 months ago

Update. "Marks Says He Was Forced Out of #FDA for Trying to Protect #Vaccine Safety #Data"
https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/fdageneral/114998

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Marks Says He Was Forced Out of FDA for Trying to Protect Vaccine Safety Data

Top vaccine regulator denied RFK Jr. full access to and editing of safety database

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org replied · 6 months ago

Update. Statement from the University of California Systemwide Academic Senate Council: The Defense of the University, April 8, 2025
https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/academic-council-statement-defense-of-university-april-2025.pdf

"We thus call on the Regents, President, and Chancellors of the University of California to expend every effort, commit necessary resources, and use all legal measures to defend our ability to conduct consequential, transformative research and provide high-quality teaching and mentoring. We call on our leaders to ensure the safety and privacy of students, faculty, and staff. And we further call on our leaders to protect academic freedom and faculty control of the curriculum—proactively and publicly."

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Universities
@academicchatter

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org replied · 6 months ago

Update. "Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws"
https://mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/mississippi-libraries-ordered-to-delete-academic-research-in-response-to-state-laws/

"A state commission scrubbed academic research from a database used by #Mississippi #libraries and public #schools — a move made to comply with recent state laws changing what content can be offered in libraries. The Mississippi Library Commission ordered the deletion of two research collections that might violate state law…One of the now deleted research collections focused on “race relations” and the other on “gender studies.”

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Mississippi Today

Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws

The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org replied · 6 months ago

Update. A statement from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (@americanacad).
https://www.amacad.org/news/board-statement-values-april-2025

"Our founders were also the founders of our nation…Current developments, in their pace, scale, and hostility toward institutions dedicated to knowledge and the pursuit of truth, have little precedent in our modern history. We oppose reckless funding cuts and restrictions that imperil the research enterprise of our universities, hospitals, and laboratories…We condemn efforts to censor our scholarly and cultural institutions, to curtail freedom of the press, and to purge inquiry or ideas that challenge prevailing policies…The Academy will continue to…work to safeguard the conditions of freedom necessary for novel discoveries, creative expression, and truth-seeking in all its forms. We join a rising chorus of organizations and individuals determined to…prevent our nation from sliding toward autocracy."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

American Academy of Arts & Sciences

A Statement from the Board of Directors - April 2025

A statement from the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, approved April 2025.

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org replied · 6 months ago

Update. "Estimated economic losses from federal health research cuts, by county"
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/09/nih-cuts-nationwide-impact-county-map

"Nearly half of all U.S. counties will experience economic losses of at least $250,000 as a result of the Trump administration's planned cuts to indirect funding by the National Institutes of Health [ #NIH], per the Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Axios

A closer look at the nationwide impact of NIH cuts

Nearly half of U.S. counties will see economic losses of at least $250,000 from cuts to indirect funding by the National Institutes of Health.

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